Blog du Tristank
Migrating to https://blog.tristank.com/ . And still so terrific that 3 of 4 readers rated it "soporific"
The title kinda says it all. If you, like me, are the owner of a brand-new Surface Go, but also own...
Date: 10/18/2018
Simple: SLAM doesn't retrieve the computer's Local Admin password - LAPS does! SLAM is a Premier...
Date: 09/25/2018
There's a fun indicator you can use to quickly evaluate whether you've been missing security updates...
Date: 09/12/2017
I once experienced a problem with my Surface Pro 3 where the keyboard (and screen rotation) stopped...
Date: 02/26/2017
Recently, when connecting to a reasonably-sleepy Windows system, I’ve seen the RDP Ghost. An 8 bit...
Date: 02/18/2017
A rationale for more stringent risk assessment. Or indeed any risk assessment for internet connected...
Date: 01/09/2017
Right: One of my pet hates is cruft on a production website. Cruft is stuff - files - which has...
Date: 11/24/2016
Long and boring post ahead. So: KITTENS! There. Fluffy now. As one of the Premier Field Engineers...
Date: 10/14/2016
Posting a hopefully-useful tidbit. Hi Tristan, Do you have by any chance a guide on how to set up...
Date: 07/27/2016
I spend a fair whack of time chatting PKI and certificates with customers, and tyre-kicking their...
Date: 04/28/2016
You find lots of draft posts when your user interface changes... Hi! I've been waiting for my blog...
Date: 04/27/2016
I decided it was time to look at upgrading my home broadband, mostly to get better-than-128KB upload...
Date: 03/09/2015
... which can be annoying when you're trying to work out where your traffic's headed, with...
Date: 04/03/2014
(Can you sense flatten-and-reinstall time approaches?) Or Windows 8. Applies to .Net 3.51, 3.0, and...
Date: 08/29/2013
While Skydrive’s been able to display Office documents in your web browser for what seems like ages...
Date: 04/27/2013
Without doubt, one of the most FAQ when discussing Application Pools in IIS Admin and...
Date: 04/07/2013
(Because I'm sure that was your exact exclamation when you hit it!) Also applies to IIS 7.5 (Windows...
Date: 03/06/2013
TMG SP2 Update Rollup 3 As the ISA Blog mentions, Rollup 3 for TMG Service Pack 2 is now available:...
Date: 02/13/2013
(Written back in... oh... 2007? But cleaning out old posts after a blog migration. The "zooming...
Date: 11/04/2012
My Surface RT is preordered (as is my Mum’s), all my home computers are upgraded… it’s finally...
Date: 10/22/2012
“We want to talk about our tenants” Sure, it might be cloud computing, but tenants inhabit a space;...
Date: 09/17/2012
The Volume Licensing website allows Win8 Enterprise to be downloaded to the new laptop, which should...
Date: 09/13/2012
DJOIN with a client TXT file failing with error 0x57 - Incorrect function or parameter is incorrect.
Incorrect function or parameter is incorrect. Long story short: DJOIN.EXE is finicky about its text...
Date: 09/13/2012
Australian Premier Support customers: Join us for an overview of the new stuff in Windows Server...
Date: 08/17/2012
Lots of account hacking activity in the news recently. The Blizzard hack (via RPS) caught my eye...
Date: 08/10/2012
I maintain a few projects with a few spaghetti functions. It’s really common to see something like:...
Date: 06/13/2012
Several reliability fixes included: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2689195 To install UR2,...
Date: 05/07/2012
Users cannot access an IIS-hosted website after the computer password for the server is changed in...
Date: 02/10/2012
There's an very handy-looking new tool that can be used to quickly determine a site's compatibility...
Date: 01/20/2012
(pasted from my email clippings. I’m on holiday right now, catching up on paperwork!) The TLDR...
Date: 12/22/2011
All the references I can find refer to the developer preview, not the released version - I have a...
Date: 12/16/2011
Recently, I worked on a Kerberos configuration issue with a customer; these are my notes from the...
Date: 10/27/2011
There I was, blathering away about Kerberos and SetSPN and sleeping - sleeping! - while the...
Date: 10/10/2011
Hi! You might remember me from such posts as Kerbie Goes Bananas, and SetSPN improvements for...
Date: 10/10/2011
I upgraded the drivers for my ATI/AMD Radeon in the Media Centre after 1 year of old version-ness,...
Date: 07/27/2011
The Hotmail team blogged about email aliases earlier this year – I didn’t know either technique was...
Date: 07/06/2011
That’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 + Service Pack 1 + Software Update 1 + Update Rollup...
Date: 06/22/2011
While updating some documentation today and noticing it’s 2011 (when, exactly, did that happen?), I...
Date: 02/08/2011
A customer battling automatic proxy configuration issues with ISA/TMG, and PAC/WPAD.DAT pointed me...
Date: 12/21/2010
I’ve been working on my tablet for the last week, and found myself really really missing IE9, even...
Date: 09/23/2010
ScottGu has the detail of (and a walkthrough for) the Web Farm Framework, which looks to make...
Date: 09/08/2010
Missed this completely while working onsite for the last {forever}! TMG SP1 is here. There’s an X64...
Date: 06/30/2010